About "Give Blood"
"Give Blood" is a song by Pete Townshend, the guitarist for The Who. The song is the opening track for Townshend's fourth solo album, a concept album titled White City: A Novel, and was released as a single. "Give Blood" features Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour. He also appears on another song from the album, "White City Fighting", the music for which was written by Gilmour.
When Townshend was asked about the song he said:
Give Blood was one of the tracks I didn't even play on. I brought in Simon Phillips, Pino Palladino and David Gilmour simply because I wanted to see my three favourite musicians of the time playing on something and, in fact, I didn't have a song for them to work on, and sat down very, very quickly and rifled threw [sic] a box of stuff, said to Dave, "Do one of those kind of ricky-ticky-ricky-ticky things, and I'll shout 'Give Blood!' in the microphone every five minutes and let's see what happens." And that's what happened. Then I constructed the song around what they did.
Cash Box said that the song was "strong paean to world peace."
The single failed to chart in UK or to make the Billboard Hot 100 US Pop Chart, but reached number 5 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Charts.
The song was used to encourage blood donation on June 14, 2021 on World Blood Donor Day.
Top songs by Pete Townshend
Give Blood- Begin The Beguine
- Behind Blue Eyes
- Brilliant Blues
- Body Language
- Three Steps To Heaven
- Baba Blues
- Anyway Anyhow Anywhere
- Ask Yourself
- A Fool Says
- Bargain
- White City
- Street In The City
- English Boy (reprise)
- Catmelody
- Eyesight To The Blind
- April Fool
- Cache, Cache
- Alan Cohen Speaks
- Annie
- Pure And Easy
- Predictable
- My Baby Gives It Away
- So Sad About Us
- Barefootin'
- All Shall Be Well
- Early Morning Dreams
- All God's Mornings
- Cat's In The Cupboard
- A Friend Is A Friend
- After The Fire
- Brooklyn Kids
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